Hawthorn, Wild Form (Crataegus monogyna) potted tree, Organic

Hi Laura, Thanks for contacting. We’re currently sold out on wild hawthorn trees but will have them again in the spring. I recommend planting the seeds now in a gallon pot, or hitting waitlist and getting an established tree in spring. Anyhow, yes, the tree does well in pots. The salient factor is whether a tree sizes itself to the pot or tends to overgrow and then suffer–hawthorne sizes itself to the pot. Yes, it is best to work them up in successively larger pots. Start with a gallon pot, then 3 gallon, then go to a grow bag or 5 gallon pot. Eventually you might want to go to a half drum. That would be roomy enough for a multistemmed hawthorne that would flower nicely and bear fruit. richo

hi tina, realistically, it will probably take 3 to 5 years. r

hi maria, i want to say yes. we have these listed to a zone 9. reason being they can burn out with too much heat. maybe a shady or northern aspect? r

Hello Ashton, We get mixed reviews on this. Many consider it to be almond-like, sweet and dense. It is actually used quite frequently in perfumery. Others dislike it. It is a fragrance deep and pervasive, extraordinarily attractive to native pollinators. Richo

hello jaime, i believe that is the Chinese hawthorne, and its a good one. we used to have it and no longer have it. i don’t know where to get it, we have discontinued trade with china, they do not tend to follow usda guidelines. richo

hello svetlena, this appears to be a matter of taste, where some people say they smell musty, while others describe the odor as sweetly vanilla-like. To a pollinator, it is a very attractive smell. I love making the tincture of hawthorn leaf and flower and find the scent quite nice. r

Hello Stephanie, Some sources list this as an acceptable species all the way up to zone 11. I’ve tried to be conservative about recommending Crataegus monogyna in warmer winter areas because my experience is that they are healthier when they get a cold winter dormancy. If as the name “mountain valley” suggests you do have treed slopes then this might be a better habitat for a hawthorne tree than say a desert valley floor with alkaline soils. It might make sense to visit a local nursery and see which if any hawthornes are being provided for local planting–there may be more heat-tolerant species and cultivars out there. Richo

Hello Adrienne, These are currently marked out of stock because they are in the field and haven’t been set to pots. 4-year-olds. hit “waitlist” and as soon as we have something we think will work well for you, we’ll enable and an e-mail will go out to you so you can order. richo

Hi Kira,
Thanks for staying in touch. The wood of hawthorn is extremely flexible and the plant can be trained extensively. I think the downside could be that it tends to resprout with multiple stems from any cut so you’d end up pruning it frequently. However I do not think this is a stopper. I worked with hawthornes throughout the winter and early spring. I had a whole field of them. I had to prune them back hard in order to send them to people, as they were already shoulder-high in the field and it would have made the boxes too long to send them without pruning. But I planted a number of the heavily-pruned trees in 3-gallon containers in order to assess how they came out of the heavy pruning, and what I found was, that they were able to thrive, and many of them sent out a primary leader that is now, again, shoulder-high. You can choose any branch you like and tie it back to a trellis and get it to do pretty much anything you want. Richo

The very best. Hit “waitlist.”